WIDE DAYS - BTBW (FANTASTIC) SEMINARS ON THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

The drawings from Born To Be Wide's 'Wide Days'. The other drawings will make their way on here one way or another, in their own good time, like all good things.

Wide Days - Making Touring Pay

with Robert Hicks(Rockness co-founder and tour promoter), Jason Edwards (booking agent, 13 Artists), Michael Lambert (Moderator/Manager/Musician), Keren McKean (Music Manager), Caroline Winn (General Manager, Hebrides Ensemble)

You can tell this is my first iPad sketch of the day where the time limit has escaped me - I was also writing screeds down on a seperate sketch book. Hopefully you can see that my method improves throughout the day :)

Wide Days - Write a Killer Bio - with Neil Cooper

Wide Days - Not Just SXSW

with David Balfour (Fine Tunes/Records of the Day), Shaun Arnold (goNorth), Olaf Furniss (BTBW/Moderator), Richard Caesar (Un-Convention), Allan McGowan (Conference Consultant)

Wide Days - Making Money with PPL - with Dan Millington

Wide Days - Digital DIY vs Record Labels

with Stewart Henderson (Chemikal Underground), Matthew Young (Song By Toad), Olaf Furniss (BTBW/Moderator), Scott Cohen (Manager/The Orchard), David Balfour (Fine Tunes/Records of the Day).

Wide Days - Online Promotion with Inner Ear's Dougal Perman and Andy McGolgan

Wide Days - Music in Films

with Caroline Gorman (Rage Music), Eleanor Yule (Film Director), Vic Galloway (BBC Radio Presenter/Moderator), Malcolm Lindsay (Composer), Huw Williams (Soundtrack Film Festival)

Wide Days - Music Making Money with Scott Cohen

Keynote - Olaf Furniss (BTBW) in conversation with Barry Wright (Co-Founder Regular Music)

Excellent reviews of the day, which are much more informative, can be found at Peenko, Popcop and IsThisMusic?

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'Thoughts'

Well it's been quite a day.

I feel washed out. 5 hours sleep and up at 6.30am feeling quite chirpy, sun shining. Nipped off to Edinburgh with my packed lunch, portfolio and drawing materials, and proceeded to draw the fantastic BTBW Wide Days music industry event on my iPad between 10am-6.30pm, train ride back to Glasgow, then drawing the album launch of Take A Worm For A Walk Week from 9pm-11.40pm.

Have just got back into my room, it's 1.27am, and I think I'm going to hit the hay.

But not before I mentioned my iPad learning curve documenting BTBW, my upcoming commission to draw a wedding, the backlog of 30 or so drawings I need to scan and upload to the blog (because I certainly haven't been idle since you last heard from me, simply that I've been a bit overwhelmed with work), the 2nd Children's book that I'm working on, and the fact that I'm decanting my room/workspace to move to Stockholm - an adventure I've finally accepted the challenge of. :)

With that, I leave you. Goodnight.

WIDE DAYS - BORN TO BE WIDE - (FANTASTIC) SEMINARS ON THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

Meursault - You Brought Screaming Into The World

Electric Circus, Mobile Phone Drawing

Meursault, with Screamy bit - Electric Circus, Mobile Phone Drawing

Hopeless Heroic, Electric Circus, Mobile Phone Drawing

Hopeless Heroic, Electric Circus, Mobile Phone Drawing

Aaron Wright, Sneaky Pete's, Watercolour

Panda Su at Sneaky Pete's, Mobile Phone Drawing

Holden, Cabaret Voltaire, Mobile Phone Drawing

WIDE DAYS SEMINAR - 'I AM THE LAW - ESSENTIAL LEGAL ADVICE'

Dawn Barraclough, Murray Buchanan, Steven Fisher, Claire Thompson

Moderator: Jen Hunter (Musicians Union)

WIDE DAYS SEMINAR - 'HOW TO GET ON A FESTIVAL BILL'

Pete Irvine (Unique Events/Hogmanay Edinburgh), Helen Chalmers (Wickerman), Dave Corbett (T in the Park, The Edge), Rob Hicks (Rockness, Belladrum), P.C. Rae (Slottsfjell, Norway/SXSW)

Moderator: Vic Galloway (BBC Scotland)

WIDE DAYS SEMINAR - 'HOW TO GET ON A FESTIVAL BILL - CHOICE QUOTES'

Moderator: Vic Galloway (BBC Scotland)

WIDE DAYS SEMINAR - 'WHAT NEXT? - PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE'

Will Page (Chief Economist PRS), Scott Cohen (The Orchard), Andrew Dubber (Birmingham University), Steve Mayall (Music Ally)

Moderator: Olaf Furniss (Born To Be Wide)

WIDE DAYS SEMINAR - 'SPEAK TO THE MANAGEMENT'

Bruce Findlay (Aberfeldy/The Silencers/Simple Minds), Keith Harris (Stevie Wonder), Rab Andrew (Texas/Primal Scream), Grant Dickson (The View/Broken Records), Mark Baillie (Woodenbox)

Moderator: Derick Mackinnon (Born To Be Wide/NFS)

WIDE DAYS SEMINAR - 'GAVIN BAIN - CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN''

OLAF FURNISS'S CLOSING STATEMENT ON 'WIDE DAYS'

If you didn't attend, you'll wish you had.

Excellent seminars, the atmosphere charged with opinions and enlightening comments, a full day of crucial and entertaining information for anyone interested in any aspect of the music industry, all from a notably seminal group of exciting and much-experienced speakers. The bands playing later in the evening showcases are excellent and well worth finding out about if you haven't already. Though I don't have pictures of them from this event, this also includes the Edinburgh based Art/Music Collective 'Found' who are one of my favourites, plus Carrie Mac.

So get on it - Come to the next Born To Be Wide Event. It'll be brilliant.